XMLLiterals and langauge tags
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gk
>>a typed literal with a language tag
>>is
>>syntactically OK,
path
>yes
>>but ill-formed,
>no, it just has some redundant information in it
Pat is right, he is also right to say
> FWIW, seems to me that by trying to keep the syntax a wee bit simpler
> we have made everything else a lot more complicated. I would like to
> see lang tags purged from typed literals altogether, they seem to
> play no useful role, even in XML (since you can always include them
> in the actual XML document-character string, right?).
I personally think we have 'new information' [1] in that the reagle decision
allows a simplish resolution of pfps-08 to align XMLLiteral with the other
datatypes, which then means that the lang tag would never be used on type
literals and could be purged. I guess that procedurally that would be
reopening reagle-01, reagle-02, pfps-08 - and it might be better to get on
with the other issues first. (Even superficially related ones, such as
danc-0? goofy literals, are orthogonal).
Jeremy
[1] "So finish the job! :-)"
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2003Apr/0056.html